The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
by Burhān Niẕām Shāh of Aḥmadnagar to congratulate Bābur on
his conquest of Dihlī, namely, Shāh T̤āhir the apostle of
Shiism in the Dakkan. He is thus distinguished from Sayyid
Daknī, (Ruknī, Zaknī) _infra_ and my text needs suitable
correction. (See Add. Notes under p. 631 for further
particulars of the Sayyid and his embassy.)
[2925] For further particulars see Add. Note under p. 688.
[2926] For "H.S. ii" read iii (as also in some other places).
[2927] Down to p. 131 the Ḥai. MS. uses the name Shaibānī or
Shaibānī Khān; from that page onwards it writes Shaibāq Khān,
in agreement with the Elphinstone MS.—Other names found are
_e.g._ Gulbadan's Shāhī Beg Khān and Shah-bakht. (My note 2 on
p. 12 needs modification.)
[2928] The title "Aūghlān" (child, boy) indicates that the
bearer died without ruling.
[2929] This cognomen was given because the bearer was born
during an eclipse of the moon (_āī_, moon and the root _al_
taking away); _see_ Badāyūnī Bib. Ind. ed. i, 62.
[2930] Here _delete_ "Sulṯān-nigar Khānīm", who was his
grandmother and not his mother.
[2931] On p. 433 n. 1 her name is mistakenly entered as that
of Sulaimān's mother.
[2932] Concerning this title, see Add. Notes under p. 540.
[2933] He may be the Tūlik Khān _qūchīn_ of the
_Ma`asiru'l-umrā_ i, 475.
[2934] Ḥaidar Mīrzā gives an interesting account of his
character and attainments (T.R. trs. p. 283).
[2935] See Additional Note under P. 372.
[2936] See Additional Notes under P. 51.
[2937] Here the Ḥai. MS. and Ilminsky's Imprint add "Nāṣir".
[2938] The natural place for this Section of record is at the
first mention of Yūnas Khān (p. 12) and not, as now found,
interrupting another Section. See p. 678 and n. 4 as to
"Sections".
[2939] The entries of 934 and 935 may concern a second man
`Alī-i-yūsuf.
[2940] Perhaps skilled in the art of metaphors and tropes
(_`ilmu'l-badī`_).
[2941] My text has _julgāsī_, but I am advised to omit the
genitive _sī_; so, too, in aīkī-sū-ārā-sī, Rabāṭjk-aūrchīn-ī
_q.v._
[2942] Cf. _s.n._ Āhangaran-julga n. as to form of the name.
[2943] Asterisks indicate Translator's matter.
[2944] Bābur uses this name for, Anglicé, the Kābul-river as
low as nearly to Dakka.
[2945] "The Dara-i-ṣūf, often mentioned by the Arabian
writers, seems to lie west of Bāmīān" (Erskine, _Memoirs_, p.
152 n. 1).
[2946] Bābur's itinerary gives Gharjistan a greater eastward
extent than the Fr. map Maïmènè allows, thus agreeing with
Erskine's surmise (_Memoirs_ p. 152 n. 1).—The first syllable
of the name may be "Ghur".
[2947] On p. 7, l. 1, after "turbulent", _add_, " They are
notorious in Māwarā'u'n-nahr for their bullying."
[2948] On p. 134 for "(I was) 19" _read_ in my 19th (lunar)
year.
[2949] Cf. _Life of Busbecq_ (Forster and Daniels) i, 252-7,
for feats of Turkish archery.
[2950] For the Bukhara (Bābur-nāma) Compilation _see_
_Wāqi`-nāma-i-pādshāhi_; as also for its Codices, descendants
and offtakes, _viz._ Ilminski's "_Bābur-nāma_" and de
Courteille's _Mémoires de Baber_.
[2951] The confusion of identity has become clear to me in
1921 only.
[2952] One of the nine great gods of the Etruscans was called
Tūrān. Etr. _Tūr_ means strong, a strong place (fortress);
with it may connect L. _turma_ (troop) and the name of
Virgil's Rutulian hero Turmus may root in the Mongol tongue.
Professor Jules Marthe writes in _La Langue Etrusque_ (Pref.
vi), "Il m'a paru qu'il y avait entre l'Etrusque et les
langues finns-ougriennes d'étroites affinités" (hence with the
Mongol tongue). "Tarkhān" is "Tūrkhān" in Miles trs. p. 71 of
the _Shajaratu'l-atrāk_ (H. B.).
[2953] This Cat. contains the Turkī MS. of the Bukhara
Compilation, once owned by Leyden.
[2954] where, in n. 3, for f. 183_b_ and f. 264_b_ _read_ f.
103_b_ and f. 264.
[2955] For "Ḥ.S. ii" read Ḥ.S. iii—also on p. 244.
[2956] On this peg may be hung the following note:—The
_Pādshāh-nāma_ (_q.v._) calls the author and presenter of the
above translation "Abū-ṯālib" _Ḥusainī_ (Bib. Ind. ed. vol. i,
part 2, p. 288), but its index contains many references
seemingly to the same man as Khwāja Abū'l-husain _Turbati_.
The P. N. says the book which it entitles
_Wāqi`āt-i-ṣaḥib-qirān_ (The Acts of Tīmūr), was in Turki, was
brought forth from the Library of the (Turk) Governor of Yemen
and translated by Mīr Abū-ṯālib _Ḥusainī_; that what Timūr had
done with this book of counsel (_dastān-i-nasā'iḥ_) when he
sent it to his son Pīr-i-muhammad, then succeeding (his
brother) Jahāngīr [in Kābul, the Ghaznis, Qandahār, _etc._]
Shāhjahān also did by sending it, out of love, to his son
Aurangzīb who had been ordered to the Deccan.
[2957] In n. 5 for "_parwān_" read _parrān_, and _read_
Blanford.
[2958] Which _read_ (l. 17) for _yak rang_. The name
_bak-dīng_ appears due to the clapping of the bird's mandibles
and its pompous strut; (cf. Ross' _Polyglot List_, No. 336).
[2959] Following the _zammaj_ insert "Another is the buzzard
(T. _Sār_); its back and tail are red". (_Cf._ Omission List
under p. 500.)
[2960] _See_ Omission List under p. 498.
[2961] After "Tramontane", _add_ Its breast is less deeply
black.
[2962] The bird being black, its name cannot be translated
"yellow-bird"; as noted on p. 373 _sārīgh_ = thief; [_sārāgh_
or _sārīgh_ means a bird's song].
[2963] For references to Niẕāmi's text, I am indebted to Mr.
Beveridge's knowledge of the poems.
[2964] Cf. Mr. G. Murray's trs. (Euripides i, 86) suggesting
that the Wooden Horse was a _sar-kob_.
[2965] Abū'l-ghāzī classes Manghīt with Mughul tribes, Radloff
with Turk tribes (_Récueils p. 325_), Erskine says, "modern
Nogais."
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